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Lenora Fulani and the Politics of Opportunism

There is an ideological and conceptual trail that leads from Lyndon
LaRouche to Fred Newman to Lenora Fulani. It is the confluence of political
opportunism with a crude anti-elite critique. Fred Newman has written
of the influence of LaRouche's theories on his work; and Lenora Fulani
has credited the influence of Fred Newman's theories on her analysis.
But even if this were
not the case, the pattern remains visible.

LaRouche was not the only left analyst in the late 1960s and early
1970s to adopt an anti-elite analysis that overemphasized the role
of powerful families and elite policy groups in shaping politics and
history. Unlike the work of G. William Domhoff and Holly Sklar, who
look at elite formations such as the Trilateral Commission in a context
that is rooted in an institutional and systemic perspective, the crude
anti-elite analysis sees a handful of malicious elites manipulating
an idealized society against the will of the people.

In the crude anti-elite analysis, it makes sense for the left and
right to join forces to smash the corrupt regime controlled by the
malicious elites. Add in economic nationalism and political opportunism,
and you have key ingredients for the recipe that gave the world national
socialism. It is important to recognize that fascism is an extreme
form of right wing populism.

LaRouche's move toward an alliance with the right is documented in
Dennis King's book Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism,
(New York: Doubleday, 1989).